quanteda (version 0.8.0-3)

readability: calculate readability

Description

Calculate the readability of text(s).

Usage

readability(x, measure)
## S3 method for class 'corpus':
readability(x, measure)
## S3 method for class 'character':
readability(x, measure = c("all", "ARI", "Bormuth",
  "Coleman", "Coleman.Liau", "Dale.Chall", "Danielson.Bryan", "Dickes.Steiwer",
  "DRP", "ELF", "Farr.Jenkins.Paterson", "Flesch", "Flesch.Kincaid", "FOG",
  "FORCAST", "Fucks", "Linsear.Write", "LIX", "nWS", "RIX", "SMOG", "Spache",
  "Strain"))

Arguments

x

a corpus object or character vector

measure

character vector defining the readability measure to calculate

Examples

readability(inaugCorpus, measure = "Flesch.Kincaid")
txt <- c("Readability zero one.  Ten, Eleven.", "The cat in a dilapidated tophat.")
readability(txt, "Flesch.Kincaid")
readability(txt, "FOG")
inaugReadability <- readability(inaugCorpus, "all")
round(cor(inaugReadability), 3)